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Bike Rides and Ski Slopes – All in One Week
We are privileged to have one of the 7 natural wonders of the world in the state of Arizona – the Grand Canyon. It is truly a grand sight. One of our favorite things to do now when we go to the Canyon is to rent bikes and ride along the rim. Everyone can do it; it’s not so close to the rim that you are scared for your children or yourself, for that matter. Believe it or not, we have ski resorts in Arizona – two of them! Each year we travel to the White Mountains for a ski trip. This year was one of the best simply because…
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An Off-Road Adventure
While I have been missing here at Treasuring the Moments, I have not been sitting around. No, we have been busy with friends, family, trips and adventures. It has been a delightful month thus far. After catering the wedding the second week of January, we had some visitors come by for a few days. We had to show them some of our favorite spots… like this mine. What we weren’t expecting on our outing was the fuel pump to quit on our off-road vehicle. But before we realized that, we thought we had just run out of gas, so while Russell left to go find some abandoned plastic tubing to…
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Family Fun for the Holiday’s
What do you do with 29 people for 5 days? (We had that many during the Christmas holiday’s if you recall from my last post.) Every morning at 8:30 all the singles had morning drills and exercises in the walleyball court. The rest of us maybe should have been exercising with them but we took that time to get ourselves together and get breakfast started. Those on the exercise schedule would come to the kitchen to find glasses of water with fresh lime juice. Then it was out to the walleyball court for morning warm-up stretches and exercises, along with walleyball drills and walleyball. As you can see, I did…
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Christmas 2015
Happy New Year! 2015 is here already. It sure did come along fast! We had an amazing holiday with family. Twenty-nine of us were gathered here at the ranch for 5 days. No, my house isn’t a mansion but when you have people willing to be stuck into every nook and cranny, it works. Russell and I spent our time in the laundry room and I had a sister and her husband stay in our new pantry. Headspace at night for them was a little low (they were partially under the bottom shelves) but they had a little heater in there along with a small lamp and it actually looked…
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A Winter Mantle for 2014
I’m trying to get as much done here at the farm as I can before the family arrives next week. Russell, so sweetly decides to make a run into town to get me more liquid iron, and he asks if there’s anything else I’d like. I tell him bananas. One little item… But then I remember there is a sale on blackberries and clementines so I call to ask him to pick that up, too. Three little items… He doesn’t do much shopping at our local Sprout’s so finding the liquid iron was a bit of a chore but after rounding up two employees, the liquid iron was plucked…
